Obama likes to pick and choose....

who gets what for stimulus funds, and now wants to write off much of student loans at taxpayer expense. So here's an idea. How about we only write off student loans for those areas where minds are needed. Math, Engineering, Science, Technology etc, and stop subsidized loans for degrees in Philosophy, Sociology, Religion, Women's studies, Ethnic cultures, Political Science, blah blah, blah.

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Obama is out trying to buy votes (again). Now he is going after the young, college-age population that he captured in 2008 but who seems to be disengaged so far this election cycle.

Our federal government should not be in the business of providing student loans. Liberals want to make it so people have to come to the government for just about everything (dependence). Now taxpayers will be on the hook when students default on their loans (which is on the rise). Obama thinks government should provide a college education anyway - which is asinine. If I read it correctly (in a different article), Obama will allow students to default on any remainder of their loan amount if it isn't paid off in 20-25 years. Knowing that, why would people make any payments at all then?
Student loan debt has just passed credit card debt here in this country. Keep in mind, our government doesn't count student loan money as part of their "debt" (expense), so it doesn't show up as part of our $15 trillion debt. In fact, they calculate it as "income" because they are counting on people paying that money back. So in other words, we are much deeper in debt than what we are being told (and student loans isn't the only magic accounting trick our government uses).
-Hmmmmmmm..........free college education. I thought we were out of money?

BTW, we are steadily (and rapidly) approaching the $15 TRILLION mark for our Nations debt. Obama is spending money and growing government in a unprecedented pace.
-When will the madness end????

...it may well end in riots by the great unwashed "occupying" every city they can.

They have no cohesive message, but who cares when you never bathe.

Although I make very little money anymore, I don't understand this 1 percent junk. When I hear 1 percent have all the money, it's simple math to see that 1 percent pay most of our country's taxes.

I'd love free everything, but the only way to get that is with a gun, body armor and a small Mad Max army. I plan to shop for my hockey mask and leather panties soon, after which I'll start tying prisoners to the hood of my armored car.

It's coming out now that former ACORN reps are helping to organize some of these "occupy" gatherings, and that some Unions have offered to bail out people who get arrested.
-Figures. Who woulda thunk it.

For a grass roots movement they sure have a lot of professionally printed signs, many having the same message. Wonder who paid for the signs? I also read where some demonstrators were being paid 100.00 bucks a day. Wonder they will get a W-2 and pay taxes on it?